Book and writing groups?

I told a friend of my impending move to Greensboro yesterday, and his immediate response was "We have to form a writing group!" It is true that I am writing a story, and it is true that I need someone to motivate me and to help me occasionally, so that is probably a good thing. It is also quite terrifying. It took a great deal of courage for me to send my story to my mom (who sort of thinks most things I do are great, like any good mom) and to show it to my husband. Showing it to anyone else, even a childhood friend and fellow writer, is going to be so scary! One upside is that we write in a similar genre, if not a similar style.

The same friend also wants to start a book group. He said I should hurry up and catch up to him in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan so that we can read that together. I'm only on the first book, The Eye of the World. He's on book 4, The Shadow Rising, so I have some catching up to do before that will work.